It looks like you're using an Ad Blocker.
Please white-list or disable AboveTopSecret.com in your ad-blocking tool.
Thank you.
Some features of ATS will be disabled while you continue to use an ad-blocker.
. en.wikipedia.org...
The book focuses on the unusual traditions, customs, and culture of Solarian society. The planet has a rigidly controlled population of 20,000, and all work is done by robots, which outnumber humans ten thousand to one.
People are taught from birth to avoid personal contact, and live on huge estates, either alone or with their spouse only. Face-to-face interaction (referred to in the book as "seeing"), and especially impregnating a woman, when replacement of a descendent is necessary, was seen as a dirty chore. (Other science fiction novels examine the extra-uterine care of fetuses, but this is not Asimov's concern here.)
Communication takes place through technology unknown off of their world: holography, 3-D television. At the time, 2-D (ordinary) color television was a novelty, with very limited programming and not many of the expensive receivers. Asimov was a scientist with a wide range of interests, and was familiar with the principles of electron microscopes then being developed, and from which holography descends.
The Solarians have no modesty when communicating with each other in this fashion. In the book it is referred to as "viewing", in contrast to "seeing", which is face-to-face and dangerous, because a disease could be transmitted. Nudity was frequent.
I think eventually it will all inevitably backfire something merciless but, until then, who knows.
originally posted by: EndtheMadnessNow
Blackstone To Acquire Majority Stake In Ancestry.com In $4.7 Billion Deal
(Reuters) – Blackstone Group Inc said on Wednesday it agreed to acquire genealogy provider Ancestry.com Inc from private equity rivals for $4.7 billion, including debt, placing a big bet on family-tree chasing as well as personalized medicine.
Ancestry.com has more than 3 million paying customers in about 30 countries, and earns more than $1 billion in annual revenue. Launched in 1996 as a family history website, it harnessed advances in DNA testing and mobile phone apps in the following two decades to expand its offerings.
~30 countries sampling and phone Apps - contact tracing...Acquisition during this plandemic is highly suspicious. The last few years I've had a crazy idea that what if these DNA sites where you send in a sample of your DNA, if they are attempting to identify a small population that looks perfectly human But, genetically may be a different species from the genus Homo. Aliens walk among us.?
Enter 2020 corona madness and the DNA collection has increased 10x fold, not to mention hearing mentions of DNA or RNA modified vaccines to modify your DNA/RNA. Recall Baal Gates has been on the record saying multiple vaccines may be required...like multiple Microsoft Updates to get it right. Scary thought.
With the above in mind, one can speculate on this patent...
Treatment of radiation disorders
Abstract:
The present invention provides methods and compositions for the treatment of DNA damage related disorders. One embodiment is a method for the inhibition of side effects associated with chemotherapeutic and radiotherapeutic agents using chloroquine compounds. Another embodiment is a method for treatment and/or prevention of lethal or sub-lethal radiation toxicities associated with terrorist acts or war.
Let that sink in. Why are we spending $Billions on a so-called vaccine??? Yea, (Operation) Warp Speed ahead.
originally posted by: EndtheMadnessNow
a reply to: crankyoldman
Yep, I flip almost daily between comedy and flat out anger. Regardless if you play the game, refuse, or try to ignore it all the psychological effects and consequences to come are going to be profound.
Everyone will be forced to wear masks to maintain a constant level of fear and an omnipresent atmosphere of sickness and death, as if the world were one big infectious disease ward. Everyone will be mandated to wear these masks at all times, at work, at home, in their cars, from pubs to any public or private establishment, even hiking in a National Park, everywhere. Anyone who fails or refuses to do so will be deemed “a threat to public health” and beaten and arrested by the police or the military, or swarmed by mobs of New Normal vigilantes and drones. As is glaringly obvious to anyone whose mind has not yet been taken over, the "apocalyptic corona pandemic" was always just a Trojan horse, a means of introducing the "New Normal" to reset the world which they’ve been doing since the very beginning.
Air travel to crossing State lines will require Public Health Passports or biometric chip implants. Children will suffer the worst torture from "social distancing" rituals to online schooling in front of a computer, phone & TV 24/7 for behavioral re-conditioning while cocooned in bubble-wrap with a mask. Imaginary digital frens, isolated, alone, confused, and dumbed down; all forms of sports outlawed except in your backyard with your digital frens while remaining completely out of touch with 'life' and nature.
"New Normalism" the Big Lie is a classic totalitarian movement (albeit with a pathological twist), and it is the goal of every totalitarian movement to radically, utterly transform society, to remake the world in its monstrous pervasive image. Their ideology is a pathologized ideology (as opposed to, say, the racialized ideology of the Nazis), so its symbology will be pathological. Fear of disease, infection, death, and obsessive attention to matters of health and paranoid lifestyles, among other forms of psychological torture will dominate every aspect of life. Paranoid propaganda and ideological conditioning will be ubiquitous and constant.
A glimpse into not so distant Philip K. Dick dystopian future? Hope not! I think eventually it will all inevitably backfire something merciless but, until then, who knows. I hope this is not a sick joke by means of "Nothing can stop what is coming." Much can change after Nov 3rd but I don't see us going back to pre-2020 normal.
originally posted by: F2d5thCavv2
Sounds like Ezra Cohen-Watnick may be a placeholder for the Assistant SecDef position he is holding. Not crystal clear from the article, unless I missed something.
Putting a guy 34 years old in that position has to be stirring the hate juices of many career civil servants in DoD.
Cheers
originally posted by: FlyingFox
a reply to: Flesh699
Maybe Maxwell could be prisoner-swapped for Assange.
originally posted by: crankyoldman
Clip of Scott Atlas, the replacement for ghoul fauxci, with some interesting words. Notice his human candor, rather then the reserved reptile speak of fauxci.
The end point is very, very on cranky point.
Gematria for Scott Atlas: 555 We Will Win
Q#555 We Are WITH YOU